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Low-code platform provider MicroPact has delivered a case management solution to help Illinois health officials offer pain sufferers an alternative to opioids. Thanks to its ‘Data First’ approach, MicroPact entellitrak enabled the Illinois program to build a process-centric apps that can automatically leverage existing data and models -- without coding.

Low-code platform provider OutSystems is partnering with Omnext, specialists in software risk analysis, to launch two new offerings to help users ensure their low-code apps conform to best practices for reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.

Cloudera, in partnership with ParallelM, aims to deliver super-scale to machine learning capabilities during operations and production. The latest partnership comes as the Cloudera / Hortonworks merger became official last month, and the newly-combined company’s vision for AI/ML and new-gen analytics begins to take shape.

In an eye-opening report, Accenture suggests that the rate of innovation has become so profound that the time many have come for an “Internet refresh” – from the bottom up. Among the stats: Only 30% of companies are “very confident” in their internet security protection. IDN reviews the highlights.

MicroStrategy is kicking off the new year with a huge update to its long-time BI and analytics platform. MicroStrategy 2019 aims to deliver new levels of intelligence, self-service and mobility. IDN talks about MicroStrategy’s latest version with CMO Marge Breya.

2019 starts out with new insights about feature flags - about one of developers’ more popular go-to tools. Even though they offer a simple and straight-forward way for developers to turn on and off functionality within an app or code, they can also add cost and complexity, says a recent study.

Enterprises have been using APIs to connect cloud-based applications like Salesforce and NetSuite with legacy applications for a while now. Simon Peel, chief strategy officer at Jitterbit, shares insights on 2019’s trends to use APIs to connect to cloud-based AI-as-a-Service.

Snowflake Computing is partnering with DataRobot and its advanced enterprise automated machine learning platform. The goal is to bring AI to huge caches of enterprise data held in Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse installations

In 2019, DevOps will be a focus for companies looking to speed up software releases. Electric Cloud is offerings help on several fronts – with add-on features for analytics, AI, cloud-based SaaS options. IDN speaks with Electric Cloud CTO Anders Wallgren.

Splunk Inc. continues to build on its integration with Amazon Web Services with new offerings to support connections to just-released AWS technologies, including AWS Security Hub and Amazon CloudWatch Events.